Overview
- A Suffolk County grand jury indicted Officer Nicholas O’Malley on Wednesday, moving the case to Suffolk Superior Court for a later arraignment.
- Prosecutors say state law and Boston Police policy allow shooting at a moving car only to stop imminent harm, and they argue that standard was not met.
- A police report says O’Malley’s radio claim that Stephenson King Jr. tried to run officers over was not true, and body camera video and witness accounts dispute his account.
- The report details that officers had stopped a stolen car after an alleged carjacking and that O’Malley fired three rounds through the driver’s window as the vehicle moved.
- O’Malley’s attorneys plan a self-defense case and are seeking King’s records, and charging an officer for an on-duty shooting remains rare in Massachusetts, with only one similar case in the past two decades.